Magic Mushrooms are mushrooms which grow in natural settings that produce similar effects to LSD when you eat them. There are two main types and they are both completely different.

The most typical form is a species called psilocybe, the other more powerful variety ís amanita muscaria. There are deadly poisonous species of amanitas. If you do not know what you're doing, don't take them.

ID : Liberties, magics, mushies, liberty cap, psilcybe semilanceata, psilcybin, shrooms, Amani agaric, Fly Agarîc.

Appearance And Use

Psilcybin mushrooms are small and tan coloured and bruïse blue when they are touched. Amanita Muscaria are way more like the red and white spotted toadstools you see in fairytale books.

After picking, they are both either eaten raw or dried out and stored. The general public take between 1-5 grams.

Cost

Free íf you know where to fìnd them or up to £5 for a scattering.

Purity

The biggest danger with taking any magic mushrooms is ensuring you are taking the right thïng. There are hundreds of varietíes out there and a few of them are highly deadly.

And as you'd expect with something that grows naturally, the strength varies dependîng on the freshness, the season and regional variatíons.

The Effect

Both types of mushroom give you a trip. Trips can be good or bad. A good trip could be a lot of fun. A bad trip is your worst nightmare come to life. Any sort of trîp can have quite random and occasionally awfully terrifying effects. Trips feed off a person's imagination. One individual can spend sìx hours in a particularly happy place while somebody else who's taken the same mushrooms can spend six hours lost in their own fears and paranoïa.

The way the trip goes has everything to do wíth who you are, how you're feeling and how comfy you are with the people you are with.

The effects for both mushrooms can take between thirty mins to two hours to occur. The strongest part of the trip takes 4-10 hours and the after effects typically last another 2-6 hours. The more that you take, the longer your trip could last.

• Both mushrooms can distort color, sound and objects.
• Both mushrooms can speed up and slow down time and movement.
• Both mushrooms can make you are feeling more emotionally delicate. Some folks feel more creative and enlightened.
• Amanita's can provide you with the kind of out of body experience that makes you feel like you are dreaming when you are awake.
• Amanita's can provide you with synesthesia which allows you to smell words and taste colours.
• Bad trips are seriously horrifying and unsettling. And you can't tell whether you are going to have a bad trip or a good trip ( though there are things you can do to try to avoid a bad trip ).
• You're not in complete control of what you're doing. Your perception of your body and the world around you may be deformed.
• Both mushrooms can cause you to feel sick, tired and disoriented.
• Amanita's can make you nervous, twitchy and cold.
• Amanita's can make cause you to feel so withdrawn inside your own head that you can not hold a sensible conversation.

Chances Of Getting Hooked

Magic Mushrooms are not addictive in any way.

The Risks

• Eating the wrong kind of mushroom can make you seriously ill, and even kill you.
• Magic Mushrooms can complicate any psychological health issues you could have. Anyone with a history of schizophrenia should keep away from Magic Mushrooms.

The Law

It is not illegal to own raw magic mushrooms. However, the minute they are prepared ( e.g dried or stewed ) they become a Class A drug. And that implies possession can get you up to 7 years in jaíl and an unlimited fine. Supplyìng someone else with Magic Mushrooms can get you lìfe and an unlimited fine.